Photo by doublespace photography
Resulting from an extensive visioning process exploring the evolving role of the library in the digital age, The Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library by ZAS Architects is a visionary maker-space dedicated to community learning, gathering, creating and celebrating.
Engaging new users in record numbers since its opening, the transformative community centrepiece aims to empower local residents of all ages and demographics, inviting an exploration of learning in the library with the tools and technology of the 21st century.
“This is a very important facility for the City of Vaughan,” says Paul Stevens, Principal in Charge, ZAS Architects. “The Civic Centre Campus has a fairly long history in terms of its evolution, transforming from a modest seventies campus into something far more ambitious later on. Using this as a starting point, we saw the library as an opportunity to evolve the major centre of government further, based on what is happening in the City of Vaughan itself.” Photo by doublespace photography
Capturing the attention and imagination of the residents of Vaughan, the library?s ethereal façade and shifting translucent form beacon the community, making a clear statement that this is a meeting place created for the future of the city. From the exterior, the digital nature of the library becomes instantly clear.
“The exterior has this whimsical, unconventional look to it, almost like its bursting a...